Kernels in Debian

[John covici]

The problem is module versioning -- the modules have to be compiled
with the same compiler and have the same version information as the
kernel.

One thing which would be nice, is if the Makefile in the src directory
of the git sources were arranged   to make
speakup for a non running kernel.  I tried doing a make with the
ubuntu 2.6.27 kernel which I had configured, but not installed speakup
in and the Make failed -- I think because I was not running the kernel
I wanted the speakup for.

on Monday 10/20/2008 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote
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 > I thought as much concerning the speakup and kernel situation.  I
 > thought the 2.6.26 and later could somehow be done without having to
 > build a kernel? I'm thinking of those machines or situations where one
 > could sit down at the computer and drop in speakup without modifying
 > the kernel on that machine.  Are we not quite there yet?  I think it
 > would be really cool if one could slap Speakup modules on a thunb
 > drive or something and boot a linux machine that is being visitted and
 > have the speakup modules loaded from the USB device with a mere boot
 > parameter or something like that.  This would be similar to the U3
 > implementations in windows or the Screen reader on a stick concempt.
 > 
 > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04:51AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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 > > I personally use the stock sources from kernel.org without the debian
 > > patches, and I use kernel-package to build a debian package of the
 > > kernel, which I then install with dpkg -i. Yes, your observation
 > > regarding speakup is correct, you do need a configured kernel source
 > > tree on your system to build speakup from the git sources.
 > > 
 > > Greg
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